Today was a rich, blossoming, beautiful day, sprayed with shimmering sleeplessness that seemed to make us all mysteriously more awake, more available to the unknown and to each other.
Here are some of the great beauties of the day:
I experienced a strong and harmonious echo between Black Belt and my Senté energetic studies with Paul Richards, as well as my studies with Martín Prechtel. The profound energetics of what we are learning have parallels to Senté, and practicing omitting certain everyday components of speech felt a lot like trying to write and speak without the verb to be, as Martín loves to do. I learned some time ago not to try to harmonize all my paths, but to be available when they want to come into relationship with each other. I love it when they do!
Dancing as a group to The Beatles’ “She’s So Heavy” and laughing.
Going on another field trip, this time with three buddies to the Portland Public Library central branch, with its magnificent open, marble stairway and temple-like architecture, giggling like 12 year old girls as we attempted to complete our assignment and get back to the studio in an all too brief 20 minutes, talking too loud in the stacks and saying “fuck” in the elevator because we could.
The feeling I don’t want the intensive to end, that I am just now consistently relaxing for no reason into the material, and that as a group we have so much to share and learn from each other.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Ruth // Jul 17, 2008 at 1:53 pm
tomorrow commences
the last intensive day
reminds me of Patricia
Spradling’s showing us how to
step into the Center of the
Medicine Wheel
Our own way in our own beauty
Our own fulling of the teachings
Alive, confident in all the mysteries!
love and more love to you
for this great day!
Ruth
2 Sharry // Jul 17, 2008 at 4:27 pm
It is such a joy to be along on this journey with you, Rachael.
blessings,
Sharry
3 Sarah // Jul 17, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Oh Honey,
Maybe you could suggest that the Black Belt be two weeks long!!!!
How delicious.
I can hardly wait to see you and feel you and dance with you…
Class was fun today….
and we are ready to have you back!
Safe and sweet meanderings as you all gently part ways from each other…
for now.
Loving you,
Sarah Rose
4 Liz Sherbow // Jul 18, 2008 at 9:49 am
Dear Rachael, I’ll so much welcome you back!
You talk about how the Black Belt process brings to mind other paths of learning you have experienced. Isn’t it amazing how that is true. I find that Nia resonates with, sometimes is in the same “place” as other paths that have been meaningful to me. It is so thrilling when that happens. I know I’m at the center of something good!
I love “She’s So Heavy”! That’s from Abbey Road and I love the whole album!
Five days is really brief for such an experience. Yet as a bell that has been struck you will still be ringing for us when you return.
Love, Liz
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